Fixing Fighting in NHL 2010: Fight Night on Ice

[RaychelSnr]

NHL 09 is, by most accounts, a truly great game. However, there is one feature in NHL which is just subpar, the fighting engine. Alexander Senate checks in today with an article discussing how to fix the fighting engine in NHL 09 to bring it up to par with the rest of the games quality. Check out his thoughts and be sure to add your own two cents!

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"NHL 09 is the favorite to win my personal Game of the Year award at this point. Unless one of the NBA games comes and knocks it off next month (I’m looking at you 2K9), the race is already over. We can leave the argument for MLB 08: The Show for another time, but what we can’t debate is that no matter how impressive NHL 09 is in terms of gameplay and replayability, there is one thing that is missing. It is something that is one of the most popular aspects of all hockey video games, if not the sport of hockey as a whole. I am of course speaking about the lack of a fully immersive fighting mode. It is something that 09 is plagued by. I did however come up with the way to fix it."

[tabulaRasa]

They should focus on getting accurate calls for interference and fix the exploit move that is stick lifting . It´s absurd when you meet players online that sticklift 250 times a game and get called once or twice.

[mrnickyb]

Stupid article. Fighting is idiotic in real life. Why would we want to bring it to the game. It's the first thing I turn off in the options menu. It's a great Hockey game. If I want Fight Night I'll play Fight Night...

[rellix1]

Quote: Originally Posted by mrnickyb

Stupid article. Fighting is idiotic in real life. Why would we want to bring it to the game. It's the first thing I turn off in the options menu. It's a great Hockey game. If I want Fight Night I'll play Fight Night...

Too bad fighting is part of hockey. Ever been to a game or seen one on TV?

[roCCityroller]

agreed, fighting is a part of hockey and a part of hockey strategy. And it's going to stay because the fans love it and it puts people in the seats. You want a realistic game of hockey but you turn fighting? So, you only want semi-realistic hockey?

[BIG CAROLINA]

Thats cool if they want to fix the fighting, i understand that it is a big part of hockey, but so are power plays and penalty kills. I would rather they fix penalties so that you have them on all levels of play.

[roCCityroller]

This is just a suggestion for 2010. I don't know how you guys are bringing PP's into the situation?

[adayinthelife]

the 'fight night' style of fighting would be a great addition to the game for sure.

personally i think the best fighting i've ever seen in a videogame was in that chronicles of riddick game on the original xbox. first person view, left trigger is your left hand, right trigger is your right hand and getting clocked in the face actually throws you off balance (i don't care how tough you are, getting punched in the face sucks).

it'd be great if they could do something like that perhaps..